The GOSPEL (GOD’S OVERCOMING SALVATION PROMISING ETERNAL LIFE) will SAVE us from the GUILT, POWER, and PENALTY of sin. If the Gospel does not save us in this manner; it is not the fault of the Gospel, but the unwillingness of the recipient to receive the Gospel as God has prescribed it in the Bible. Jesus is the Great Physician. He will not prescribe any medicine that will not work, but Jesus has clear instructions (CONDITIONS) on how this medicine must be taken. Matthew 1:21 says that Jesus came to save His people from their sins, not “in their sins”. No man-made doctrine can change or alter what Jesus said, and what He meant.
The Gospel will do exactly as God said it will do for anyone who receives it on His terms. If man alters the Gospel or the terms with which it is to be received, through false doctrines or a false grace; then man will remain in his sins. The state of man’s heart will be evidence that he did not receive the Gospel on God’s terms.
God does not wear special glasses where he sees Jesus in those who have been truly converted into Christianity (born again, new birth, regenerated). God sees reality and states or conditions of our hearts. If, once truly converted, we have chosen to sin; grace doesn’t simply cover or hide this fact from God’s vision. Sin must always be confessed with a repentant heart. The remedy for sin is not changed by our conversion. After conversion, God’s grace doesn’t automatically and spontaneously cover our willful transgressions of God’s Law.
Jesus is a Gentleman and will not remain where He is not welcome. Our choice to sin after our true conversion to Christ will grieve God’s Holy Spirit; and He as well will not remain where He is not welcome.
However, through God’s awesome Gospel we can once again truly humble ourselves, confess, and repent of our sins and return to the loving relationship with our heavenly Father once again. It is by grace through faith which began our relationship with God; and it must be by grace through faith in which our relationship may once again be restored. This false grace or imputed righteousness (“Putrid Righteousness”) that covers or saves man while yet in his sin is false. These are man-made false doctrines deceiving and falsely comforting backslidden Christians. These false doctrines, and others like these, must be eradicated as they will keep people in their sins. However, the Truth will make you free!!!
Flesh Nature (King James & NASB) vs. Sin Nature (NIV Bible, etc.)
Sensibilities: (An old term meaning fleshly desires) DEP4ASE:
Desires, Emotions, Passion, Pain (physical and emotional), Pleasure, Propensities, Sensations, and Every kind and degree of Feeling as the term feeling is commonly used.
The Big QUESTION: Is the flesh in and of itself sinful? Or must our heart (Free-will) render it operative in its demands (once reaching the age of accountability to do so)? What does the Bible say? Who is our Creator, and how and with what nature did He create us? If the flesh were sinful in and of itself, then we could never be sinless or holy even for a second; because even after being converted to Jesus Christ our flesh does not disappear (it simply is no longer in control by a free-will choice through the Holy Spirit). As long as we live in this life, we have a flesh, just as Jesus did while living on this earth. However, it matters who and what we render operative in our lives to determine our spiritual state. Sin is never passive or involuntary. If we examine literal Scriptures (not figurative or poetic Scriptures) closely; we find that sin cannot be transmitted like a virus to others without a choice. Vitiation means self-corruption: to corrupt something that was pure. Please read these Scriptures below, and LET SCRIPTURE SPEAK; not doctrines of man.
Ecclesiastes 7:29
(NASB)
[29] “Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.”
Romans 5:13 (NASB)
[13] for until the Law sin was in the world, but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Deuteronomy 24:16
(NASB)
[16] “Fathers shall not be put to death for their sons, nor shall sons be put to death for their fathers; everyone shall be put to death for his own sin.
Ezekiel 18:20
(NASB)
[20] “The person who sins will die The son will not bear the punishment for the father’s iniquity, nor will the father bear the punishment for the son’s iniquity; the righteousness of the righteous will be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked will be upon himself.
Romans 2:14-15
(NASB)
[14] For when Gentiles who do not have the Law do instinctively the things of the Law, these, not having the Law, are a law to themselves,
[15] in that they show the work of the Law written in their hearts, their conscience bearing witness and their thoughts alternately accusing or else defending them.
Genesis 6:12 NASB
[12] God looked on the earth, and behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way upon the earth.
Psalm 119:73 NASB
[73] Your hands made me and fashioned me; Give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments.
Malachi 2:10 NASB
[10] “Do we not all have one father? Has not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously each against his brother so as to profane the covenant of our fathers?
Job 31:15 NASB
[15] “Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?
James 3:9 NASB
[9] With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in the likeness of God;
1 Corinthians 11:7 NASB
[7] For a man ought not to have his head covered, since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
Psalm 139:13-14 NASB
[13] For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
[14] I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.
Hebrews 2:14-18 NASB
[14] Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, He Himself likewise also partook of the same, that through death He might render powerless him who had the power of death, that is, the devil,
[15] and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.
[16] For assuredly He does not give help to angels, but He gives help to the descendant of Abraham.
[17] Therefore, He had (was obligated to be) to be made like His brethren in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.
[18] For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
2 John 1:7 NASB
[7] For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.
How could Jesus Christ truly be our example if He was not 100% man (even though He emptied Himself and laid aside His privilege
because He is also 100% God). Jesus had a flesh, just like ours, in order to show us by example as we trust in Him through His Holy Spirit; we will be more than conquerors. The secret of consistent Christian stability in his walk in holiness is only found through the Holy Spirit by faith in Jesus Christ through the New Covenant Promise. We must no longer allow our experience of tried/failed, tried/failed to become our standard; but allow God’s standard (Jesus Christ) to become our experience.
2 Corinthians 3:4-6 NASB
[4] Such confidence we have through Christ toward God.
[5] Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
[6] who also made us adequate as servants of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Ezekiel 36:25-29 NASB
[25] Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols.
[26] Moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
[27] I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will be careful to observe My ordinances.
[28] You will live in the land that I gave to your forefathers; so you will be My people, and I will be your God.
[29] Moreover, I will save you from all your uncleanness; and I will call for the grain and multiply it, and I will not bring a famine on you.
Colossians 1:26-29 NASB
[26] that is, the mystery which has been hidden from the past ages and generations, but has now been manifested to His saints,
[27] to whom God willed to make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
[28] We proclaim Him, admonishing every man and teaching every man with all wisdom, so that we may present every man complete in Christ.
[29] For this purpose also I labor, striving according to His power, which mightily works within me.